earlier books include chrysalis, marion and the secrets of the forces is tinkering with eating. stephanie is the author of a book called citizen reporters, she's written for numerous online publications including new yorker.com custodian.com and los angeles review of books and currently lives in providence. kim and stephanie are going to 20 to 30 minutes and then we will open up to audience questions submitted through the button.he i will turn it over now. >> thank you, stephanie. thank you to the book store, this is such a pleasure to do this. i welcome the chance to travel back in time to the gilded age celebrate the publication of this book, congratulations, can. >> thank you very much, it's exciting to have it out in the world not i'm sure it then a long time coming and now that the world is going to open up again, it seems like the perfect time thank you to everyone who is t attending. get get this conversation started by focusing on the beginning, could you tell us about how reporting got its start? >> yes, i started with the reporter of this era, she, as a young woman in